I'm not sure why the parent doesn't like it, but I can explain why I don't like it. I think there's a certain group of users who have developed the habit of highlighting while reading to keep their place in scrolling media. At least, that's why I highlight text a lot. For me, the quote box is annoying, but I can see how it might be useful for people who don't highlight text while reading.
I am also one of those who highlights while they read and find this quiet annoying. There seems to be no real reason for the button to start at your mouse pointer and move over to it’s final resting position. Just showing it in its final resting position would decrease the obnoxiousness of it ten fold.
Some folks really enjoyed <blink>, <marquee>, and auto-playing MIDI songs.
I'm not saying those opinions are unimportant, but maybe features that resemble <marquee> would be unpopular for reasons similar to why <marquee> became unpopular? ;)
yes - this is a great update. I used to try and keep a separate folder for projects and my wordpress install and as I recall I had to come up with a Makefile to copy files into the WP plugins directory for testing... symlink is definitely a big win.
One of the great advantages to this is that plugin developers can keep their plugin separate from their WordPress installation. This is a boon for developers with multiple installs who want to test compatibility; keep in mind that you can symlink the entire plugins directory if you're testing multiple!
Basically, if you're a plugin dev, you no longer have to update your files across multiple local installs; you can simply keep your plugin files in one place, and symlink that plugin to any local install you're testing on.
Another alternative to this is to develop in a local multisite install. Not suitable for every scenario, but good enough for 90% of sites in my experience.
I built this functionality into a few apps that never made it past proof of concept, but a good library to get your feet wet with is dropzone: http://www.dropzonejs.com/
Really glad they got rid of paste from Word (even though just a tinyMCE update) I would see people do this and it would look just fine, but it would add each paragraph as its own div sometimes and all other crazy formatting that would mess up the responsiveness of the site.
Love seeing a lot of these other features as well, really excited for 4.0 :)
Could anyone point me some stats on wordpress version usage? For developing themes and a plugin, should I simply target and test on the latest version?
In short, depending on the purpose & features of your plugin, you may want to consider testing on older versions as well. With themes, it shouldn't be too big of an issue to ensure compatibility for a couple of versions back, at least.
It's pretty acceptable for themes and plugins to expect people to be on the latest version of WordPress, or at worst maybe one version behind. The more complicated support metric is PHP version. Unfortunately, widely used plugins probably still need to support PHP 5.2, because so many hosts won't upgrade their client's PHP versions.
In general, I believe comments such as this are downvoted on HN because they are interpreted as adding little or no value to the conversation while attempting to shift focus away from the topic at hand. I'm not saying that was your intention, but it might be perceived that way by people with the power to downvote (a power I don't have or care about much). This kind of policing is generally done here with the intention of keeping the site from turning into just another subreddit.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but there's very little consistency in this behaviour. The large amount of bikeshedding over trivial matters (a project name, a license version, etc...) shows people share their opinion regardless of whether it adds depth or is strictly relevant to the conversation.
